Honors and AP classes are for kids who are intellectually curious, and have been since they were elementary school students. Intellectually curious kids read, explore, study and remember facts on their own because they are intrinsically motivated to find things out. Higher learning cannot take place in a brain that’s essentially a vacuum.

I really like this. I've been an AP student (long, long ago!) and have been intellectually curious and intrinsically motivated my whole life. I love learning anything, everything, whenever possible. It frustrates the crap out of me when I have a child who refuses to be curious about anything other than his new cult: a christian church!

I found your site from a comment you left on someone else's post about an atheist billboard. I figured anyone who is an engineer, a poet, and an atheist must be worth reading.